Ormond: 5

by Maria Edgeworth

Book Overview

Maria Edgeworth was born at Black Bourton, Oxfordshire on January 1st 1768. Her early years were with her mother's family in England. Sadly, her mother died when Maria was five. Maria was educated at... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140436448
• ISBN13: 9780140436440
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

An Irish Waverly?

Edgeworth's Ormond is a great book, comparable to the best of Scott and Austen. In it, we follow the young Ormond from his wealthy adolescence with his uncle; a sojourn with another, more eccentric uncle in the Black Islands; to a grand tour of Paris before the revolution; and to his mature return to Ireland. The mirroring of political tensions in pre-revolutionary France with conflicts between Irish political factions are further complicated by Ormond's own allegiance to the English mililary.This novel is more than a romance, more than a coming-of-age novel, and more than a historical novel. It possesses the same melange of styles one would expect from an heir of Sterne and Swift, and a progenitor of Le Fanu, Joyce, and Beckett. If you have read all of Austen and wonder what to read next, Ormond should be a delight.